From the Financial Post, October 31, 1929:
This shot is taken from Park Street, looking east towards Ouellette.
Here’s the same view today.
Built in 1929, the house at 2177 Victoria Avenue was originally numbered 1545 Victoria, pre…
Crescent Lanes first opened on Ottawa Street in 1944 at 1055 Ottawa Street, opposite Lanspeary…
Above is a photo of the home of Mr & Mrs Oswald Janisse, located at…
in 1917 two Greek brothers Gus & Harry Lukos purchased a one story building on…
Photo from Google Streetview A long time reader sent me an email the other week…
An unremarkable end to a part of Windsor's history. The large vacant house at 841…
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I remember, as a child, accompanying my mother to an event in the ballroom of the Prince Edward. It was some cosmetics show, Elizabeth Arden, as I recall, and for years we both had the tiny sample lipsticks from the "goodie bags". That was my only experience in that heady atmosphere but I was saddened when they demolished the place nonetheless. I don't understand the tendancy to destroy old buildings when they are inevitably replaced by structures with shorter lifespans and usually much less design appeal. Why would one prefer Ho Jo's or Holiday Inn, for example, to the Royal York? I think Windsor would hold more appeal as a "tourist destination" or convention centrre if we could still offer the Prince Edward or the Norton Palmer but I guyess that's just me and they'd likely have become dingy SRO's in the interval.
Was it the Prince Edward that didn't have a private bathroom in each room, or was that The British American? Or Norton Palmer? I travel a lot for work and typically stay in a Holiday Inn Express, but last summer I went to Seattle for vacation and stayed in a very old hotel. It was quite small and cramped, but I wasn't going there for the room, I was going for the rest of the city.
This place.
http://www.executivehotels.net/downtownseattlehotel/
This is the place. I can't seem to find the age of the place.